A Zsidó Világkongresszus bírálja az Európa Tanács döntését a körülmetéléssel kapcsolatban

A Zsidó Világkongresszus bírálja az Európa Tanács döntését a körülmetéléssel kapcsolatban

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 04 October 2013

World Jewish Congress criticizes Council of Europe assembly for questioning circumcision

The claim that the Brit Milah constitutes an infliction of permanent bodily harm on a baby is wrong and is not supported by any scientific evidence,” said WJC President Ronald S. Lauder.

Adi Schwartz: Iraq didn’t want its Jews. Why should it get their inheritance? – i24News

04 Oct 2013 Although the Jewish community of Iraq practically ceased to exist in the beginning of the 1950’s after years of persecution, dispossession and discrimination, Iraq’s government claims that the Jewish Archive is a national Iraqi heritage and that the US must return it to Baghdad. READ MORE »

Greece’s Golden Dawn: ‘Don’t say a word or I’ll burn you alive’ – BBC News

04 Oct 2013 A fortnight ago, Greece’s neo-Nazi party was riding high in the opinion polls, but the murder of Pavlos Fyssas changed all that. READ MORE »

Israel to run for UN Security Council seat for 2019-20 – Reuters

04 Oct 2013 Israel said on Thursday it plans to run for a rotating seat on the UN Security Council for the time ever for 2019-2020, although UN diplomats said it will not be easy for the Jewish state to win. READ MORE »

Report: Indonesia’s last synagogue destroyed – JTA

04 Oct 2013 Indonesia’s last synagogue has been destroyed, a Dutch news site reported last week. READ MORE »

Lieberman slams NY Times editorial accusing Netanyahu of ‘sabotaging diplomacy’ – JNS

04 Oct 2013 Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman compared an editorial by the ‘New York Times’ that was critical of PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s UN speech to a 1938 headline that praised the Munich Agreement for granting Adolf Hitler “less than his Sudeten demands.” READ MORE »

Is there such a thing as an ‘Israeli’ people? Supreme Court says no – Israel Hayom

03 Oct 2013 Israeli nationality only refers to one’s citizenship, not ethnic identity, the Supreme Court’s Civilian Appeals Court ruled on Wednesday.  READ MORE »

Daily Mail accused of anti-Semitism over Ralph Miliband smears – Huffington Post UK

03 Oct 2013 Senior Jewish figures in Britain have accused the Mail of anti-semitic insinuations in the paper’s attack on Labor Party leader Ed Miliband’s father – a Jewish refugee from Nazism. READ MORE »